Following Cork’s dramatic win over Kilkenny in last year’s All-Ireland camogie final, Briege Corkery joined fellow Corkonian and good friend Rena Buckley in being the most decorated GAA player in history.
Ahead of her speech at the Women and Agriculture conference in 2018, she spoke to Irish Country Living about hurleys, heifers and hard work.
Caroline Keeling at Keelings, north County Dublin.
Formerly listed on the Women's Executive Network's (WXN) 25 most powerful women in Ireland, Caroline Keeling was one of the speakers at this Agri Careers fair.
She talked about her journey from family farm to entrepreneur by reclaiming the value and selling their produce.
Maria Flynn of Ballymakenny Farm Potatoes who grows rare varieties of potato at the family farm near Drogheda, including the purple Violetta.
Potato farming isn’t easy and no one knows this as much as Maria Flynn, but her purple potatoes have given Ballymakenny Farm a new lease a life and made her a worthy winner of the Women and Agriculture awards.
Kylie Magner. \ Claire-Jeanne Nash
When
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came to Ireland from Australia, she expected to stay six months.
But 20 years and four children later, she has hatched her own egg business, Magners Farm.
And, just over a year ago, Caroline Farrell was elected chair of the IFA’s farm families committee.
She said that significant progress has been made with the increased number of women on the IFA’s national council, but stressed that it is essential that women’s representation continues to grow at all levels within the association.
My Farming Week
A number of farming women have been featured in our weekly My Farming Week column over the last few months. Here is a selection of them:
Alison Daly in Clonard, Co Meath, is dairying with her parents and has plans to expand the milking herd.
Cheryl O’Brien keeps around 120 ewes, a pedigree Vendéen flock and a commercial flock, in Kildorrery, Co Cork.
Méabh Dore, her father Brendan and her brothers run a low-input 36-cow suckler farm in Shanagolden, Co Limerick.
And midwife turned sheep farmer Jennifer Wilson in Co Cavan delivered 13 lambs from three ewes in one night.
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Nollaig na mBan: cracking the glass ceiling in agriculture
Following Cork’s dramatic win over Kilkenny in last year’s All-Ireland camogie final, Briege Corkery joined fellow Corkonian and good friend Rena Buckley in being the most decorated GAA player in history.
Ahead of her speech at the Women and Agriculture conference in 2018, she spoke to Irish Country Living about hurleys, heifers and hard work.
Caroline Keeling at Keelings, north County Dublin.
Formerly listed on the Women's Executive Network's (WXN) 25 most powerful women in Ireland, Caroline Keeling was one of the speakers at this Agri Careers fair.
She talked about her journey from family farm to entrepreneur by reclaiming the value and selling their produce.
Maria Flynn of Ballymakenny Farm Potatoes who grows rare varieties of potato at the family farm near Drogheda, including the purple Violetta.
Potato farming isn’t easy and no one knows this as much as Maria Flynn, but her purple potatoes have given Ballymakenny Farm a new lease a life and made her a worthy winner of the Women and Agriculture awards.
Kylie Magner. \ Claire-Jeanne Nash
When Kylie Magner came to Ireland from Australia, she expected to stay six months.
But 20 years and four children later, she has hatched her own egg business, Magners Farm.
And, just over a year ago, Caroline Farrell was elected chair of the IFA’s farm families committee.
She said that significant progress has been made with the increased number of women on the IFA’s national council, but stressed that it is essential that women’s representation continues to grow at all levels within the association.
My Farming Week
A number of farming women have been featured in our weekly My Farming Week column over the last few months. Here is a selection of them:
Alison Daly in Clonard, Co Meath, is dairying with her parents and has plans to expand the milking herd.
Cheryl O’Brien keeps around 120 ewes, a pedigree Vendéen flock and a commercial flock, in Kildorrery, Co Cork.
Méabh Dore, her father Brendan and her brothers run a low-input 36-cow suckler farm in Shanagolden, Co Limerick.
And midwife turned sheep farmer Jennifer Wilson in Co Cavan delivered 13 lambs from three ewes in one night.
Read more
Nollaig na mBan: cracking the glass ceiling in agriculture
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